Unexpected prog reference.......

Again, not especially unexpected, but worth reporting on:

Yesterday’s All Things Considered on NPR ran a feature on Carla Bley’s latest project:

http://www.npr.org/2016/05/19/478692554/at-80-carla-bley-keeps-looking-towards-the-next-composition

Edited by AreYouHuman - May 20 2016 at 20:20

Tonight I was watching an episode of the Syfy channel's series "12 Monkeys" (season 2, episode 5). The character Jennifer Gaines is mentally unstable. She blurts out "Me, I'm a lawnmower. You can tell me by the way I walk."

The thing about this Quicksilver is that he has all the prog/classic rock references... but when his slow motion scenes come in, they use some rather poppy music from the time instead (though they actually work very nice with the scenes).

I just finished watching "Stranger Things" on Netflix. In episode six, I recognized "Exit" by Tangerine Dream. There may have been TD tracks in other episodes as well. Even the original music composed for the series feels like stuff that could have been on TD albums in the early 80s (which is when the show is set).

On tonight’s episode of “The Last Man on Earth”:

 

Tandy (Will Forte) tries to cheer up Erica, in the midst of a difficult labor, by coming to her wearing a mask of Phil, the late father of Erica’s child, and talking like Phil (badly), telling her: “Things couldn’t be better up here in heaven.  I took up the guitar and starting jamming with Jimi Hendrix and John Lennon, and Kurt Cobain of Nirvana, and Tony Levin, a wonderful session bassist who’s worked with everyone from King Crimson to Mister Sledgehammer himself, Pete Gabriel.”

 

Unexpected but inaccurate, of course.  Which of their writers thought Tony Levin was dead?  He confused him with Chris Squire, maybe?

^ OK, I get it.  My point is I would have expected them to pick someone who’s dead for real.  For the purpose of this show, they could have picked virtually anybody, so why Levin?  Obviously one of their writers is a fan.

Edited by AreYouHuman - May 08 2017 at 19:57

AreYouHuman wrote: ^ OK, I get it.  My point is I would have expected them to pick someone who’s dead for real.  For the purpose of this show, they could have picked virtually anybody, so why Levin?  Obviously one of their writers is a fan.

They very often in the show refer to people as dead who are not yet dead in our time.
Cool ref, anyway.

Slightly off topic but the other day I heard a live version of Roundabout by Yes at the grocery store. This version featured Benoit David singing.